Author: Liam Bell

Before our presentation, myself, Tom and Mateusz met up in the local area to discuss how we wanted our soundscape project to result by. We continued to discuss all of each others ideas and picked which would be the most suitable in the project. The ideas were later finalised and placed into a presentation, and were ready to present upon the following week(s).

Now we all have our sounds captured from the locations we intended, we entered the studios and began to work on making our music concrete. Tom was the mastermind behind most of our project, using Pro-Tools as the DAW and using standard techniques to make the track adapt a somewhat ‘melody’, by clipping, using the slip and grid methods, panning the sounds and fading when necessary. Captured sounds such as cash registers and store alarms was used to create a minor melody in the track whilst other sounds were in freeform, to keep our audiences attention. Below is the final result, tell us what you think!

This week, all of the group once again used book-out zoom recorders and went travelling into different locations around the city to capture more and the final sounds for our soundscape project. We went into shops, recorded the sounds of a busy day within the store, walked up to the cathedral and captured the reverberation effect inside, and then pieced together our recorded clips that contained the most clarity. These are the clips we used for the next stage, which will be editing.

This week, all three members of the group already booked out the zoom recorders from the media loans department and went into the city to beginning collecting some sounds. We started by recording simply recording main and busy roads to collect the sound of people walking, biking and travelling. Each one of us recorded the same sounds multiple times to ensure we had good quality captures and evidently clear/editable sounds to work with.

This week, the group decided what our soundscape project’s style would be based upon. Our soundscape will be within the style of Music Concrete. The group also decided where we are going to record the individual parts for our music concrete, as it’ll be representing the life of a typical day in Lincoln. These locations/sounds include trains, the Lincoln Cathedral, busy main roads and the university campus.